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Bodies in Flux

Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Barbara Braid, Hanan Muzaffar

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This volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg as a transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of post-human bodies – from cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts – showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender world Haraway imagines.Contributors are Dawn Woolley, Anna Pilińska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Śmieja and Hanan Muzaffar.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-09-05
Mått155 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt296 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAt the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
Antal sidor168
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004405905

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Dr. Hanan Muzaffar is Dean of Student Affairs and Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. She received her PhD from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Her most recent publication is a feminist reading of Djuna Barnes and Margaret Atwood, published in 2011.Dr. Barbara Braid is Assistant Professor at the English Institute of Szczecin University. She received her PhD from Opole University in 2017. Her academic interests include neo-Victorian and gothic fictions and adaptations. Her recent publications include the edited volume Gender under Construction (Brill, 2018).

Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism Hanan Muzaffar and Barbara BraidPart 1Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities Dawn Woolley2 “Bodies We Obsess Upon”: Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014)Anna PilińskaPart 2Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity3 Body Going ‘Gaga’: Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic body Barbara Braid4 “This Guy Is Such a Machine!” Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media Jana Melkumova-Reynolds5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca and Ana Gabriela Magallanes RodríguezPart 3Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s Katharina Vester7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature Wojciech Śmieja8 Margaret Atwood’s Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity Hanan MuzaffarIndex